joint research unit 7172
Theory and history of the arts
and literature of modernity
19th–21st century

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Poetics of a Lost Home: Writing the Memory of Partition

Intervention : Anne Castaing

In the light of recent anthologies of short stories (Bhalla 1994, Hasan 1995) and interview collections (Bhalla 2006, Butalia 1998, Talbot 2006), this paper aims at questioning memory and subjectivity in the recent narration (whether fictional or historical) of Partition, as an attempt to trace an unwritten social and popular History.

Updated on 18/07/2016